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    #1

    I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
    Is there a way to fix this?

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      I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
      Is there a way to fix this?

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      wrote last edited by
      #2

      I also changed the name of the forums and now emails are showing up with a broken logo.
      I updated the logo in General settings so what is the email using that still points to the previous domain which is now down? I've searched everything but the database and cannot find anything that points to the old domain.

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        I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
        Is there a way to fix this?

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        wrote last edited by
        #3

        Does no one peruse these forums anymore? 🙂

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          I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
          Is there a way to fix this?

          baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
          baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
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          wrote last edited by
          #4

          If you changed the value of url in config.json then you have restart nodebb, so that next time the emailer sends email it uses the new url.

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            I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
            Is there a way to fix this?

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            wrote last edited by
            #5

            Yes, I changed the name/url in the config file along with on the back end of course.
            I also deleted the old logo and uploaded the new one but the logo in emails remains broken with the name of the previous site still in the url.

            I searched the DB and tries to hard code the new url but that didn't work for emails at least.
            I searched all of the files to be safe and find nothing for the old url so I don't know where this is coming from.

            Not sure what else to look at which is why I posted.

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              I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
              Is there a way to fix this?

              baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
              baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
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              wrote last edited by
              #6

              This is where the email template is rendered, you can add a console.log(params) there to see the values used for the logo.

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                I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
                Is there a way to fix this?

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                wrote last edited by
                #7

                Yes but I don't want to edit files directly as there are so many nodebb updates that will overwrite changes.
                In addition, I never had to edit this file to get the logo working in emails so I'm very hesitant about touching that.

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                  I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
                  Is there a way to fix this?

                  baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
                  baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
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                  wrote last edited by
                  #8

                  You are just editing it to debug the issue, once you see the correct url there you can revert the change back.

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                    I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
                    Is there a way to fix this?

                    N This user is from outside of this forum
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                    wrote last edited by
                    #9

                    Ok, I can try that.

                    Making this change worked;
                    Emailer._defaultPayload = {
                    url: nconf.get('url'),
                    site_title: meta.config.title || 'NodeBB',
                    logo: {
                    src: "https://my.nodebb.com/assets/uploads/system/site-logo.png",
                    height: 50,
                    width: 247,
                    },
                    };

                    I also tried this with no luck.

                    nodebb> db.objects.find({ _key: "meta/config" }).pretty()
                    ...

                    nodebb> db.objects.find({ _key: "meta/config" }, { logo: 1, _id: 0 }).pretty()
                    ...

                    nodebb>

                    This confirmed that the meta/config document currently does not exist in the database.

                    db.objects.insertOne({
                    _key: "meta/config",
                    logo: "https://my.nodebb.com/assets/uploads/system/site-logo.png"
                    })

                    Rebuilt and restarted NodeBB

                    ./nodebb build
                    ./nodebb restart

                    No change.

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                      I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
                      Is there a way to fix this?

                      baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
                      baris@community.nodebb.orgB This user is from outside of this forum
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                      wrote last edited by
                      #10

                      The key name is just config not meta/config

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                        I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
                        Is there a way to fix this?

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                        wrote last edited by
                        #11

                        Ok but either way, I can't customize this page that will get overwritten so how can I get this to work? More importantly, why is it not working since it worked before the domain name change.

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                          Ok but either way, I can't customize this page that will get overwritten so how can I get this to work? More importantly, why is it not working since it worked before the domain name change.

                          julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                          wrote last edited by
                          #12

                          NodeHam regarding the user name change, are you sure it worked? Can you access the user via their new username?

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                            wrote last edited by
                            #13

                            Yes, I can log in and out, post as the renamed user.

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                              Yes, I can log in and out, post as the renamed user.

                              julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                              wrote last edited by
                              #14

                              NodeHam sounds like a varnish cache issue...

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                                wrote last edited by
                                #15

                                Could be, if I had a cache installed but I don't. I cleared nodebb cache as well but the problem persists. Right now, the only way this works is with the edited file which I'd like to restore.

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                                  #16

                                  Does anyone have any other thoughts? It's been using an edited file to solve this and I prefer not to do that and to solve this before there is another nodebb update.

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                                    Does anyone have any other thoughts? It's been using an edited file to solve this and I prefer not to do that and to solve this before there is another nodebb update.

                                    julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    wrote last edited by
                                    #17

                                    NodeHam this is not related to a remote user account, right? But a local account?

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                                      wrote last edited by
                                      #18

                                      To be safe, what you do mean by remote user account? It's a user on nodebb itself so I suppose that means local.

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                                        To be safe, what you do mean by remote user account? It's a user on nodebb itself so I suppose that means local.

                                        julian@community.nodebb.orgJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        wrote last edited by
                                        #19

                                        NodeHam yes, a remote account would be an account on another NodeBB forum, for example, reached via federation.

                                        So you're able to access both user pages? What happens when you type ajaxify.data into the browser dev console on both pages?

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                                          wrote last edited by
                                          #20

                                          Got it, no federation at all, single site on its own.

                                          I'm not terribly concerned about the slug at this point. The email logo was fixed by editing the file and that's what I'm mainly nervous about.

                                          ajaxify.data
                                          {uid: 49, username: 'HelpSupport', userslug: 'helpsupport', email: '[email protected]', email:confirmed: true, …}

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